The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-02

control of the two old parties and what is its
legal eocaI, moral and political condition to-
archists. and at the same time legalze. protect
and perpetuats 200, 900 saloons. the hot-beds
where anarchy is propaeated thrives and fat
, tens. While the drunkard goes to perdi-
ton, the drunkard- maker goes to the
Legislature to enact laws for the
people. Children cry for bread. and the father
Is sent home penniiess and drunk. While the
mother is powerlAss to protect her home and
her boy with ballot, the saloon keeper destroys
both with his ballot. AS the Sabbath bells in
wife the people to the house of God the brass
band leads the way the Sunday horse-race,
prize fight, baseball and besr-e arden. JEFF Da
via 10 his dotage. without a ballot. Is denounced
as traitor, and the ex-rebe guerrilla Mosov, In
the prime of his manhood with a ballot, is
given a foreign mission The right of free bal
iot is demanded for the black men of the South,
while white men are burned and hung in effiey
for exercising that right 10 the North. Minis
tiers of the gospel we're peraecuIed and driven
from the pulpit for preaching and voting against
African slavery; Lorty years ago. ana they nave
been prosecuted boycotted and driven from the
pulpit for preaching and voting against the rum
slavery of to-day. Lovejoy fell a martyr to
freedom in the fight against the slavery curse
Haddock, and Gambrel, and four others have
fallen, martyrs to our homes in this struggle
against the saloon curse In the face of politi-
cal platforms declaring for fair count the
black man is counted out In Mississippi and
South Carolina in his race for Congress- and the
white counted ont in Michigan and Ohio in
his right for prohibition While heavy import
duties placed upon foreign goods. the scum
of foreign labor enters free Protection for the
blacksmiths hammer, but free trade for the
blacksmith's muscle. American ships practically
driven from the seas; acountry without navy;
the peoples money locked up in the vaults of the
treasury; and a half dozen monoposts controll-
ing our highways to the markets OF the world.
For every dollar expended to educate and make
strong for the right through the influence of our
public schools, SIS is expended TO tear down and
destroy through the influence OF the public sa-
looms Ignorant, vile, profaue, vicious. dishon-
est, bear-syed drunken bummers and tramps
are allowed 90 vote, because they are men; but
our mothers. wives daughters, educated, refined,
honest. pure. noble and true, not allowed to vote
because they are women. While In one breath
bride taking is condemned in the next, bribery
bureau, with political Anarchist Its head, is
unblushingly admitted to that part of the politi-
cal machinery of great party While
a poor woman is fined heavily for plavfully
pitching a pancake at presidential party, an
S. 900 diamond mounted gold belt is given John
L. Sullivan. the champion elugger OF the
world. And yet the people are asked to perpet-
uate the political parties under whose rule this
condition of things has been brought about.
And whya Surely not because either of them
stands pledged to higher standard of morality,
the suppression of the houor traffic and greater
protection to our homes and our boys. for
such pledges are made by them. Then what is
the result of voting for such pareiesf Why.
simply to continue the old order of things and
perpetuate the sectional. political and race
prejudices of the two old parties. who
have issue between them except to determine
which shall have the offices and control the
public plupder. The Chicago Tribune plainly
tells us this morning that the license system is
TO be continued, and iptmates that Prohibition
lists ready to compromise with the liquor
traffic. We say to the Tribune and its party
that the Prohibition party has No compromise
with wrong inscribed upon its banner, and we
propose to fight it out on that line until, under
Gods guidance every saloon has been driven
from our land and the homes of tho people made
free. And in 1883, as heretofore, We propose to
appeal to reason and TO g arouse the heart and
conscience of the people that within five years
from now. the Tribune and its followers will be
forced into the Democratic camp compelled
to join the Prohioition party. There will be no
other place for it to go. And in this campaign
the man who shall lead as to a glorious triumph
is that honest patriot and Christian statesman,
Gen. Gin ton B. Fiske, of New Jersey"